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SKids giving a skype tour of your home to BM

Byefelicia's picture

This is my first time posting to this forum, but I have been an avid reader for at least 6 months....when the boogers started cropping up on the white walls of the home I share with my fiance. I found this site when I searched "booger wall"... Anyhow, I found some good advice here and also found it incredibly refreshing to hear the voices of other reasonable people who are dealing with this hellish lifestyle.

My question is this, how does my fiance handle this situation?....tonight I overheard the ss13 giving the BM a skype tour of our home...I value my privacy and I have never met this woman, nor do I intend to meet her in the future. I have disengaged from the children since their 3rd visit with us. I am incredibly uncomfortable now. I think it was such a rude thing for him to do. I could clearly hear his BM ask him to show her...

SweetMom's picture

I-m so happy I've done this. Cut the wifi off because of $. It has worked with the little one because BM won't get her a phone. The oldest girl that comes sometimes has a phone and she does it. Maybe I can get a idea as to how to tell her to Stop being on the phone.

Lillian23's picture

Ok first, I love your name. Hilarious.

Second, I love how you found this site. "Booger walls." Stepparents really do see it all.

This situation would totally bother me, too. When SO, SS7, and I all moved in together, my mom suggested I invite BM into my home so SS could show BM his room. I about spit out my wine. There is truly ZERO reason a BM needs to see inside where you live and I think you should definitely bring this up to your DH. If it makes you uncomfortable you shouldn't have to deny your feelings.

"Hey DH, tonight I heard SS walking around, showing BM the inside of our house on Skype. That just makes me really uncomfortable. Can you please talk to him about it? Nothing we can do about it now, I know, but it makes me uncomfortable and I want to make sure he doesn't do it again." Hopefully your DH is on the same page.

Byefelicia's picture

Boogers on walls seems to be the passive agressive way skids lash out at the "wicked stepmoms". I actually found myself documenting the boogers because they were appearing in many places and my clueless fiance declared that it had to be an accident. The last booger...er...I mean... The last STRAW was the one I found in the shower. I marched right in and told my fiance if something wasn't done about it right now I was going to have a melt down. He made ss13 and ss14 both look at it and clean it up.

We haven't had a booger incident since...it appears that now they have moved on to bigger things like skyping dear old mom. This is never ending....calling them out on it seems to be effective but I also like the idea of disabling the wifi...

Glassslipper's picture

Boogers smeared on the furniture was my final straw!
Good luck with the boogers, I would suggest kleenex boxes ALL over the house to the point of being ridiculous!

Byefelicia's picture

I went to his father and told him what was happening. He went into ss13 room and gave him a dirty look and his son got off the phone. Frankly, I was shocked that she would have the audacity to pull that kind of a stunt. I don't deal directly with the children...I let him know when things are happening that need his attention. I personally do not get involved with discipline and unfortunately neither did he before we met!

After the skids went to bed my fiance and I had a discussion about the nights events. He has parental controls on their Iphones so we are going to disable the skype and see if that works. Also, he is going to tell the BM on Our Family Wizard that she violated our privacy.

This is all new to me...I appreciate everyone's advice!

SemiSaneMama's picture

Recently I caught SD9 showing BM around our home. I normally don't watch who she is Facetiming because she is usually just talking to her friends but I heard BM voice & informed DH. DH set a rule that if the kids are on FaceTime they must be in their rooms not giving others a tour of our home.

Last thing I want is psycho BM trying to buy the same curtains as we have. Ha!

Rags's picture

Buy some slinky lingerie and leave it on your dresser where BM and the Skid will see it during the Skype tour of your home. Photoshop some cruise tickets, and an bill of sale for a new Beemer. Have fun with this and tune up your bare their idiot asses efforts since they are doing this crap.

Have fun.

No Name's picture

My DH actually invited BM into our home for a tour when we bought the house. She asked if she could use the bathroom when she dropped the kids off. He was so excited to show if off as it was our first house. When I arrived home I was in shock that he would do such a thing. Well she has now made comments of what a "little" house we have now that she has moved in with her BF whose home is 5 times the size of ours. I don't care, I love our little house and it is what we can afford. I have never been about the "show". Heck I have a hard enough time keeping up with this house and working full time. BM can post all of the pictures that she wants about her grand house and all of her beautiful things but truth be told they are the BF's not hers. Without him she is a big ZERO.

redtiger74's picture

Yep, I've had this happen as well. Although it was photos the skid took with his iPhone. At the time Skidly was 4.5 and started snapping away with his iPhone. Yep, a 4-year-old with an iPhone. Fortunately, it didn't have cell service enabled. So it was basically a wifi-enabled iPod. The BM had sent it with him so they could Facetime. And I said no way is that going on my network. I could just imagine nutbug BM sitting outside in the dark trying to get on our network with the skid's iPhone. The pics were pretty bad because most 4-year-olds aren't great photographers, but the iPhone suffered an untimely accident shortly after that and we haven't seen it since }:) Of course, I'm sure this will become more of an issue as the skid gets older and BM does actually get him a working cellphone (uggh), which should be any day now since he's almost 7.

If they're running their devices over your Wifi network, you can block their access at the router level using either their assigned IP addresses or the MAC (hardware) addresses of their devices. You could change the password needed to access the network or (accidentally) unplug the router when the skids are there.

It becomes a bit trickier when they're using their cell phone network. There are cell phone jammers, but I'm not sure of the legality of those. But I'm sure I'll be checking into it as soon as the skid gets a cell phone.

Anna21's picture

I have had this experience and my solution was to go into the router software and block the websites (some routers you can do that with) or simply disconnect the wifi as another posted! SS12 has tried to pretend its not BM on the phone but I told him that I dont care who he is talking to, no one gets to view our home unless invited by DH and myself. Its so invasive and I am sorry that you have had the same experience, its an icky feeling. In our case, BM was being nosy as to the type of furnishings etc, this was 3 years ago and she was convinced DH was "hiding his income". When she took him back to court and saw his tax returns she realized he was not hiding anything. Oh and I have found my SD16 going through my UNDERWEAR drawers and when I asked (shouted) at her to know what she was doing she laughed and said she was looking to see what brand I wear. So DH and I sat down with them and told them they are never allowed into our bedroom without permission, which I never give now. My friend advised me to buy one of those heavy safes to keep my sentimental jewelry and my journal. I dont have anything too expensive but they mean a lot to me and I dont trust her one bit. So now I have a safe stored in my closet that only DH knows about. Of course I told him its in case we have burglars Smile

SMLIFESUCKS's picture

This is my fear because SD11 has a cellphone. I told DH I didn't want BM having pictures of our home, or OUR DD18mo. I know it sounds silly because it's their step sister too but BM is a nutbag. I don't know this woman why would I want her to have access to pictures of my house or my daughter.

I'm sorry this happened but I can guarantee you, if I had overheard it, the wifi would have been down and I would have walked right in front of said SK and said, "hang up now or go back to your room" "BM, DH and I will contact you about this incident on OFW, look forward to hearing from us and/or our lawyer".